Strangers ante portas : The framing of refugees and migrants in the Czech quality press

URBÁNIKOVÁ, Marína and Michal TKACZYK. Strangers ante portas : The framing of refugees and migrants in the Czech quality press. European Journal of Communication. London: SAGE Publications, 2020, vol. 35, No 6, p. 580-596. ISSN 0267-3231. doi:10.1177/0267323120928224.

Basic information

• Original name: Strangers ante portas : The framing of refugees and migrants in the Czech quality press
• Authors: URBÁNIKOVÁ, Marína (703 Slovakia, guarantor, belonging to the institution) and Michal TKACZYK (616 Poland, belonging to the institution).
• Edition: European Journal of Communication, London, SAGE Publications, 2020, 0267-3231.

Other information

• Original language: English
• Type of outcome: Article in a journal
• Field of Study: 50800 5.8 Media and communications
• Country of publisher: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
• Confidentiality degree: is not subject to a state or trade secret
• WWW: URL
• Impact factor: Impact factor: 3.110
• RIV identification code: RIV/00216224:14230/20:00115761
• Organization unit: Faculty of Social Studies
• Doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0267323120928224
• UT WoS: 000539304200001
• Keywords in English: Content analysis; Czech broadsheet newspapers; framing; hierarchical cluster analysis; media coverage; refugee crisis; refugees and migrants
• Tags: rivok
• Tags: International impact, Reviewed

Abstract

This article examines how the two most popular Czech quality dailies framed refugees and migrants during the European refugee crisis in 2015. It explores the extent to which the framing described by previous studies carried out in Western and/or destination countries can also be identified in the newspapers of a country that has had only minimal experience with migration. Instead of identifying frames beforehand and coding them as holistic variables, a routinely used approach to frame analysis, it employs a more reliable and transparent method of hierarchical cluster analysis. The dailies framed the refugees and migrants mainly as a burden on host society, as victims of a humanitarian crisis and, to a lesser degree, as a security threat. The results show that the frames used by the Czech dailies closely correspond to those described in previous research, despite the different methods of analysis and the different geographical and cultural settings.

Links

• MUNI/A/1157/2019, interní kód MU: Name: Migration and Contemporary Societies: Cultural Sociological Perspectives (Acronym: MIGSOC)

Investor: Masaryk University, Category A